can you translate these for us:
Title : Hundreds of casualties in a new shipwreck
- You wanna cross the Mediterranean sea and you can't swim ?
- Nah but to the water (wordplay for "Nah but seriously ?")
There is a wordplay which is can be understood only by French/french-speaking Maghrebi people :
"Allo quoi" is a gimmick phrase that a woman called Nabilla Benattia (who's a french reality tv "star") popularized meant to be a sarcastic "are you serious ?". The wordplay here is between "allo" ("hello" when answering the telephone see further) and "à l'eau" (literally "to the water"). The "quoi" here should be translated into a sarcastic "seriously".
Here is the source when she said it (it's about a woman she shopping with and she doesn't have a shampoo and then Ms Benattia goes "you're a woman and you don't have shampoo at home, seriously ? seriously ? (allo quoi.., allo)")
Title : Rescue in the Mediterranean see
Title : Memorial for the May 8th 1945 massacres, a French Minister in Sétif
- How did that happen ?! (says the French minister while facing graves)
Little context :
When the WWII ended on May 8th 1945, Algeria was still a French colony.
The Allies victory pushed Algerians to celebrate and in some cities (like Sétif) some also rallied for independance. In Sétif specifically, Algerians (under the French rule) were authorized to rally only if there was nothing pro-independence and no other flags held than the French one. Which didn't happen and at some moment there was an Algerian flag hold by somebody in the march. A French policeman tried to take it from one of the marching Algerian but got beat up. Some French policeman which was near opened fired on the manifestation and killed the Algerian man that was holding the flag and possibly others
This triggered riots in this city and Algerians then targeted "Europeans" there to kill them. Those riots expanded mostly in the East of Algeria. On May 11th (3 days since the beginning), De Gaulle called for the French Army/Navy/Air Force to intervene and they did. Quite violently
Until the 22nd they killed, arrested, massacred, bombed, executed blindly any Algerian or any town that was supposed to be pro-independence.
Officially, the French army killed a thousand Algerians and the riots killed a hundred "Europeans". But the number of massacred Algerians is more between 10K and 15K even if the Algerian inflated this number to 50K (for propaganda purposes). That is the Setif Massacres
but just because Delim is a Charlie Hebdo cartoonist doesn't mean it this cartoon appeared in the magazine.
this is awful
